Tag: Rahm Emanuel

On Monday’s broadcast of CBS’ “The Late Show,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stated that being a sanctuary city is in Chicago’s history because it was the only city that didn’t participate in the Fugitive Slave Act. Host Stephen Colbert asked

A federal judge in Illinois on Friday ruled against two parts of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) policy of denying federal funds to sanctuary cities, but sustained a key third part, in a mixed decision that both sides will now appeal.

Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) urged DACA recipients and other immigrants on Wednesday to come to Ohio, telling CBS This Morning that the so-called DREAMers should go to his state if they “want to go somewhere and live.”

Jumping into the debate over President Donald Trump’s actions on DACA on Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the Windy City’s school children that they should not fear deportation when they are at school. City schools, Emanuel proclaimed, are “Trump-free” zones.

President Donald Trump should urge Congress to attach a major infrastructure bill to the anticipated legislation to provide emergency assistance to areas hit by Hurricane Harvey when legislators return in September.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired a shot across the bow of so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions like Chicago Wednesday from Miami, where a dramatic shift to compliance with federal immigration enforcement took place.

The Department of Justice has informed Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez that Miami-Dade County is in compliance with federal immigration law and, thus, eligible for $480,000 in grant funding for law-enforcement operations in the county.

Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel took an extraordinary swipe at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, both Democrats, on Monday over the Big Apple’s subway crisis — bragging about the Windy City’s subway system in the New York Times.

As the City of Chicago gets closer to being rated near junk bond status and as it sinks into debt with a $137.6 million budget deficit, City Hall has decided to erect an anti-Trump “sculpture” near the city’s Trump Tower.

Sunday on CNN’ “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said President Donald Trump strategy was to keep his base “on amphetamines,” which was to say also “highly charged.” Emanuel said, “Their strategy is very straightforward: get their voters, and

This week at The National Press Club when asked if Democrats can retake the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterms, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) said that the Democratic Party was “1,000 seats” behind the Republican Party at this

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised Wednesday to uphold the Paris climate agreement in the Big Apple, even if President Trump chooses to withdraw — making de Blasio one of a growing number of liberal mayors to promise to do so.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said immigrants who come here illegally and their children were “part of the Chicago family.” Emanuel said, “The kids who go to our schools, the dreamers, all the kids,

During an interview with Politico, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stated that Democrats “come off, and can come off as a party disdainful of” the middle class. Emanuel said, “I think don’t we talk about, and fight for the middle class

Monday on CNBC, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel reacted to Attorney General Jeff Sessions threats to cut grants for cities who don’t follow immigration law and declared to immigrants, “We welcome you to Chicago.” Emanuel said,”You are looking a person who’s a

Politics is one of those sports where the team playing defense doesn’t get to score many points. Democrats are working hard to keep President Trump on defense, using an even more aggressive version of the same playbook they run against every Republican president. They think the collapse of Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare repeal legislation last week gave them a new first down. Here are seven signs the Trump agenda has regained a great deal of momentum in just one day.

Before his inauguration and since taking office, Donald J. Trump has repeatedly said he would send the feds into Chicago to help the city deal with its incessant gang violence and out of control murder rate. Now a report notes that members of Trump’s Department of Justice will soon visit The Windy City to do just that.

Monday in California at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, former Obama White House chief of staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Democrats needed to “take a chill pill” and prepare for a long-term build up of the